heavyjeffd
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I'm sure this will end up in a "You're stupid, shut up" rant, but hear me out before you ridicule me.
I commute to work about 500 miles a week from the North side of Canyon Lake TX to I-10 and Wurzbach in SW San Antonio, about 56 miles each way. I get to drive with some of the biggest idiots on the road every day. Dodging screaming soccer mom's in SUV's, various gravel trucks/trailers spewing crap all over the road hitting me in the neck and (somehow) making it through the vents in my helmet to hit me in the chin/mouth, which let me tell you is just freakin' wonderful.
So this morning I'm on my way home from work on (I work nights). I am stuck behind a work truck with a trailer, a small gravel truck (both peppering me with crap) and boxed in by a Dodge Dakota and some crazy person in an Altima that won't stop tailgating me.
So I FINALLY get a break and can get myself out of this death trap and what happens? I get radared doing 81MPH passing the death trap and pulled over and ticketed.
I tried to explain to the cop that I was passing and hadn't been cruising at 81MPH the entire time, which honestly I had not. But, of course, that meant nothing.
I asked the cop why don't they ever pull over the trucks throwing gravel all over the road or lunatics tailgating motorcyclists, he said "Oh I do all the time."
Eh. I'm sure they do, but it sure seems like he ignored the trucks spewing crap and the crazy person in the Altima when he passed them to give me a ticket.
Here's hoping that cops learn to be a little bit more sensative to the risks motorcyclists are taking just to commute and deal with these ridiculous gas prices.
Hoping, but not expecting much.
I commute to work about 500 miles a week from the North side of Canyon Lake TX to I-10 and Wurzbach in SW San Antonio, about 56 miles each way. I get to drive with some of the biggest idiots on the road every day. Dodging screaming soccer mom's in SUV's, various gravel trucks/trailers spewing crap all over the road hitting me in the neck and (somehow) making it through the vents in my helmet to hit me in the chin/mouth, which let me tell you is just freakin' wonderful.
So this morning I'm on my way home from work on (I work nights). I am stuck behind a work truck with a trailer, a small gravel truck (both peppering me with crap) and boxed in by a Dodge Dakota and some crazy person in an Altima that won't stop tailgating me.
So I FINALLY get a break and can get myself out of this death trap and what happens? I get radared doing 81MPH passing the death trap and pulled over and ticketed.
I tried to explain to the cop that I was passing and hadn't been cruising at 81MPH the entire time, which honestly I had not. But, of course, that meant nothing.
I asked the cop why don't they ever pull over the trucks throwing gravel all over the road or lunatics tailgating motorcyclists, he said "Oh I do all the time."
Eh. I'm sure they do, but it sure seems like he ignored the trucks spewing crap and the crazy person in the Altima when he passed them to give me a ticket.
Here's hoping that cops learn to be a little bit more sensative to the risks motorcyclists are taking just to commute and deal with these ridiculous gas prices.
Hoping, but not expecting much.